Knicks Set City Hall Ceremony With 2 Legends as Alicia Keys Performs

Q: With a record 10,000 police deployed, what is the full cost of New York's historic Knicks celebration?

The full cost of New York’s Knicks championship celebration has not been publicly disclosed. What is confirmed is the scale: the city deployed more than 10,000 NYPD officers for the June 18 parade and City Hall ceremony, the largest police deployment for a planned event in New York history. The celebration also includes a ticker-tape parade down Broadway, a City Hall “keys to the city” ceremony, event staging and logistics, traffic control, sanitation, and a performance by Alicia Keys. But neither the news report nor the additional reporting provides a dollar figure for the total municipal cost. The available coverage explicitly says there is no published breakdown of expenses tied to the parade, including the cost of policing. So the most accurate answer is that the total price tag remains unknown based on currently available information. Any estimate would be speculative unless City Hall, the NYPD, or the city budget office releases an official accounting.

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City Hall will host the Knicks after the parade, where players are set to receive keys to the city in a traditional New York tribute.
Walt "Clyde" Frazier and Patrick Ewing are expected to join the ceremony, adding two franchise icons from different eras to the celebration.
Mike Breen, the Knicks' longtime MSG Network play-by-play voice, is slated to emcee the event.
Alicia Keys, who featured on 2009 New York anthem "Empire State of Mind," has been tapped to perform, underscoring the ceremony's hometown theme.